PTI 7th Anniversary Words Challenge #3

Last post for tonight fellow crafters. The challenge the other day on journaling cards got me inspired to do a little scrapbooking, which I haven't done in a very long time! I made this 8½ x 11" scrapbook page, with of course Kraft cardstock, and some patterned paper scraps.

I used PTI's Double-ended Banner dies to cut out a bunch of banners, then lined them up on the side of my page. Then I used the Super Star Borders Die to add all the stars. I used Wonderful Words: Memories Stamp set and coordinating die to add to the bottom of my page. I left the top left hand corner blank so I can add my journaling later.

Really can't wait for the Monthly Moments series that Papertrey Ink is going to be releasing. I've been focusing so much on card making that I've lost sight of all my journaling and memory-making, and would really like to catch up on it all. I am excited to see what the DT comes up with for this series!

Have a good night!

PTI Anniversary 3x4 Card Challenge #3

Okay, looks like this will be my last post for tonight. I was hoping to make a lot more journaling cards today, because they are fairly simple and quick to put together, but time just got the better of me and it is already after midnight. Unfortunately, I do have to work tomorrow, so I need to try and get some sleep tonight because last night I only sleep 3 hours after trying to catch up on my final Etsy orders.

These cards are simple, came together quickly. Used Papertrey Ink's Wonderful Words Friends, Together, Hello, and Memories stamp sets and dies for these, along with Kraft cardstock. The patterned paper is from Recollections Garden Florals paper pack.

If this is your 3rd time stopping by today, I appreciate you taking the time to come and check out my projects, your comments and advise mean a lot! Good night!

PTI Anniversary 3x4 Card Challenge #2

Good evening crafters, hope you are all enjoying your Saturday! I just wanted to share with you real quick another set of 3x4 cards I made for today's Card Challenge for Papertrey Ink's 7th Anniversary!

For this set of 3x4 cards, I made Monthly journal calendar cards using Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Butterflies Stamp set and the Framed Out #4 stamp set. And guess what? Those aren't printed calendar dates. I stamped those using Damask Love's Let's Make a Date Stamp set. I ordered this set immediately after I saw her little tutorial on how the set works last month, and I just received it a few days ago because she was waiting to get some more sets in stock. This stamp set is amazing, just the way it works to make each month is such a brilliant idea, I am so glad I ordered a set while she still had them in stock and I just love it!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great night!

PTI Anniversary 3x4 Card Challenge

Good morning and Happy Weekend Fellow crafters! Is it just me, or are you going to go deeply into debt with this month's Papertrey Ink Release? Did you see what Nichole showed today?! They are releasing their own project memories line called Monthly Moments! I literally spent a good hour or so really reading over and over the details of this line, I love it and I cannot wait for it to come out next week! I want it ALL!

So of course today's challenge is so fitting because we are asked to make a 3x4 journaling card, either for our memories albums or journals, or to place on TOP of a card. I was BEYOND exciting when I turned on my tablet this morning, still in bed, half asleep, and read through all the details. I immediately hopped out of bed and got to work!

Last month, I went to Michaels to scope out what kind of Valentines products they had in stock, and came across Heidi Swapp's line of products. There were stickers, stencils, cling stamps, spray mists, and much more. But what caught my eye, and what I fell in love with and just had to have ALL of, were these 9 mini stamp sets:

These stamp sets are BRILLIANT for Project Journaling, I cannot tell you how easy it is to create your own journaling cards. You can find all the stamp sets here, but I recommend you head over to your local Michaels or craft store and see if they have these, because at Michaels, they were only $3.99 each! And the best part? I got them during a 50% off stamp sale week, making them an awesome $1.99. Granted, the quality of the stamps is not the greatest, they are a little flimsy, but I still love them! (Guess I am spoiled by Papertrey Ink's great photo-polymer quality!)

So, back to today's challenge. I love to use index cards for my journaling cards, I don't often post anything Project Life or otherwise, because sometimes the journaling is too personal for me to share, but I can share these "before" cards with you at least. I used white Index Cards for these, cut down to 3x4, rounded the corners, added a 2" Kraft circle on top stamped with the Peony flower from PTI Pretty Peonies stamp set, along with various stamps from the Heidi Swapp stamp sets. Here are my cards:

I cannot wait to see the full release next month! The Monthly Moments is definitely my favorite part of the release so far! Thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey Ink MIM #119 and School Projects

Good evening fellow crafters! I hope you have all had a fantastic week! I've been super busy working and making gifts and treats for the girls' school. Today was officially their last day of school! Insane how fast the school year went by, I became a bit emotional this morning comparing the photos I took of the kiddos on the first day of school and the last day of school. I am now super excited to start the summer vacation off tomorrow with my girls! I cannot wait to start the weekend, this is going to be the first Saturday that I have not had to work in a really, REALLY, long time. The last couple of months actually I have been working Saturday and Sunday, so haven't had much family time and I really miss it. We have lots and lots planned for this weekend, fun stuff and not so fun stuff like cleaning! (After this week in my craft room, it is a disaster!)

Tonight I wanted to share with you the card I made for this weeks Make it Monday Challenge over at Nichole Heady's blog. The challenge this week is from the lovely Dawn McVey, and she wanted us to create a project using Flagged Borders. For my project I wanted to create a welcome baby card.





For this card, I used a Grey Cardstock base and picked out some patterned paper from K&Company's Itsy Bitsy Baby Girl paper pack. To create the flags I used Papertrey Ink's Banner Die as well as Stampin' Up's Framelits Bitty Banners Die set. The Stampin' Up Ink colors I used were Pretty in Pink and Basic Grey. I also used Papertrey Ink's Wonderful Words: Baby Stamp set and die, along with one of their Fillable Frames dies. I used the Paper Studio's A2 Stripes embossing folder. I am okay with how the card came out. The only thing I think I would change is the use of the same patterned paper on the card as well as the small flags. I think it does clash a bit. Owell, whats done is done!

These are the projects I stayed up late this week a few nights to finish making. I made these Skittles Candy sticks for the girls classroom parties. I got the image from LemonSqueezeDesigns Etsy shop. As always my clear 1x8 bags are purchased from ClearBagsRUs Etsy Shop. I have also purchased the 1x10 bag size from ScrappyBeadsCorner's Etsy shop. Either size bag works fine depending on how much candy you want to put in them. The kids always love these favors! If you saw my last post, I made a ton of Wreck it Ralph favors for my nephew's birthday party, and I included some Wreck it Ralph Skittles treats as well.






For the girls teachers, we made these Teacher Money boxes. This project took me FOREVER. It was a big mess trying to fit everything together nicely with the dollar bills. After hours and hours of time and paper wasted trying to make a box to hold everything together, I was finally happy with my results. I LOVE THIS GIFT! And the teachers absolutely loved them! I used primary cardstock colors to create 20 different cards, each measuring 6¼" x 2¾". I used Microsoft word to print out the little "boxes" on white cardstock to mat on top of the colored cardstock pieces. I used a Hero Arts stamp set for the Apple on each card. I used Stampin' Up's Inks in Gumball Green, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Tangerine Tango, and Pacific Point. The girls and I came up with 20 Reasons why each of their teachers were great, and I wrote them down for them. (Mostly because they take too long to write, and I wanted to write in pen and not have anything mess up). After the 20 reasons were written down, I included one last card for the back of the pile for them to write a little note to their teachers. In between each card, we placed one $1.00 bill. I figured we would have spent $20 to $25 on a gift card anyway, so might as well just give them some cash!







I love how these turned out. This might be my go-to teacher gift from now on!

One last note, if you were ever a follower and participator over at the Paper Variety Challenge blog, you may have noticed that they have been away for almost a year now. BUT I am soooo excited to have seen today that they are BACK, except this time they have started a NEW challenge blog for PROJECT LIFE! It is called Week-2-Week Project Life Challenges and Inspirations and I am sooo super excited for this, I haven't seen any other Project Life challenge blogs so I think this is brilliant. When I found out last month that my local Hobby Lobby was going to be carrying the Project Life kits, I was ECSTATIC! I found out the stores would be carrying them mid-May, so I called daily for almost a week to find out when the products would arrive. I didn't get any signed editions, but I did get the Blush Edition Core Kit as well as the Big Variety Pack 1 of the photo pages. I didn't find the Blush Edition Project life album, but the store was having a 50% off sale on scrapbooks so I just picked up one big one that matched my kit. Plus how awesome is it that you can use the 40% off coupon on these kits?! SCORE!

I love love love all the project cards in this kit! My only problem is that it has been about 3 weeks since I've picked up the kits and haven't started ANY pages at all. I was even MORE excited to find out about Project Mouse and immediately bought and printed out all the Bundles available for Project Mouse. And now? It's all sitting on the table of my craft room untouched. So the thought of there being a challenge blog for Project Life is awesome, talk about a great motivator! I can't wait for the first challenge! Head on over to their new blog now and become a follower if you love Project Life, they are doing a giveaway for the Blush Edition Core kit!

Congrats if you have made it down to the bottom of this post. This is one of my longest ever! Thanks for stopping by tonight, I hope you all have a great weekend!